Formal Expectations:

1.      Visit each other’s classroom before Spring Break.  Have a follow-up session to give each other feedback.  Briefly record and submit to The Center two things you gleaned from classroom observations by April 1, 2009.  

2.      Read and discuss Encouraging Scholarly Productivity; Robert Boice, The New Faculty Member, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, (1992).  Briefly record and submit to The Center insights or questions that surfaced in your discussion of Boice by April 30, 2009.           

3.      Read and discuss The Inner Ring in The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis (1949).  Briefly record and submit to The Center insights or questions that surfaced in your discussion of Lewis by April 30, 2009. 

4.      Read and discuss the Making Connections in Student Advising: The First Appointment in Appendix C.  You can refer back to this in Fall 08 when you have advisees.

5.      Communicate the mission and values of Union University throughout your visits.

Informal Expectations: 

Lunch, coffee, office visits, phone calls. 

Accompany faculty to campus events:  faculty meetings, faculty forum, parties, guest lectures, or recitals. 

Encourage them to pursue social and professional networks on campus and in their discipline.